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Senator Dianne Feinstein makes an implausible undercover agent, which made her recent experiment in black-market-document procurement all the more persuasive. The California Democrat decided to find out for herself just how easy it would be to get a fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake...
...Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
...pinstripes, with a smile that never seems to reach his eyes, Huffington manages to escape without having a real conversation with anyone. At his next and last stop, he thanks volunteers and ticks off his reasons for trying to wrest away the seat of California Senator Dianne Feinstein. He says she is for Big Government, high taxes, socialized medicine, a weak defense and special interests...
...staff, only three of whom are allowed to speak to the press, insists he will have no time to sit for a real interview to explain what he is for. This is not surprising. Huffington, 47, did not go from political virginity in 1991 to a dead heat with Feinstein (the latest Field poll has them at a 42-42 tie) by providing his unscripted musings to print journalists. He did it with an outsized pile of Houston oil money ($5 million in his congressional race and more than $10 million so far this year) and a team of high...
...Democratic candidates already find themselves moving cautiously rightward this year. Two years ago, when Clinton handily took California from George Bush, Dianne Feinstein won her Senate race in a landslide. This year she holds just a 6-point lead over Michael Huffington, a one-term Republican Congressman. The ultrawealthy heir to a family fortune made in natural gas, Huffington has spent $10 million of his own money on the campaign and expects to spend that much again by Election Day, most of it on TV commercials. To combat those, Feinstein's ads concentrate strongly on her anticrime measures...